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Court: Mississippi can continue blocking felons from voting

A conservative federal appeals court has upheld Mississippi's removal of voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies

The Independent UK

Heavy rain causing flooding, evacuations in Mississippi

Heavy rain and flash flooding are prompting evacuations, rescue operations and closures across Mississippi

The Independent UK

Why the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame is headed to this small Mississippi Delta town

Marks, Mississippi, is where Martin Luther King Jr. chose in 1968 as the starting point for his Poor People's Campaign, which demanded economic justice for poor Americans of all backgrounds.

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R&B Hall of Fame headed to Mississippi town

The project is the culmination of a 50-year effort to build a hall of fame for R&B musicians such as James Brown, Aretha Franklin and B.B. King.

Chicago Sun-Times

R&B Hall of Fame headed to small Mississippi Delta town

The National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame is coming to the small Mississippi Delta town of Marks

The Independent UK

‘I’m a roads scholar!’ Marty Stuart’s five decades at the country university

Since joining his first band aged 12, Stuart has played with the likes of Johnny Cash and the Byrds and is now building a country music museum. He explains the roots of his lifelong passion

The Guardian - UK

Man admits faking death to avoid sex abuse charges

A military veteran has pleaded guilty to faking his own death off the coast of Alabama to avoid sexual abuse charges in Mississippi

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Florida record-setter Shane Matthews segues to broadcast booth to analyze Gators

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Shane Matthews was an unassuming, rawboned Mississippian deep on Florida’s depth chart who would evolve into Steve Spurrier’s first star quarterback.

Orlando Sentinel

Unrivaled Brands & Other Cannabis Operators Just Made Some Key Executive Changes You Should Know About

As Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference returns on September 13-14 to Chicago, gathering top CEOs, investors and leaders in the industry, let's scroll through the latest leadership changes within the space.

Benzinga

States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports, data shows

Many of the states that are moving to ban abortion tend to have less access to health care, worse maternal and infant health care outcomes and weaker social supports for children and families.

WEKU

The Failed Campaign To Kill To Kill a Mockingbird

Recent moves to censor the book have come from Virginia, Mississippi, and California.

Reason

A hydropower plant could change St. Louis energy. It could also kill a giant river fish

WEST ALTON, Missouri — On the rocky banks of the Mississippi River two dozen miles north of St. Louis, there's a clash brewing between clean energy and wildlife conservation, with both sides aiming to repair damage wrought by humans.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Southern abortion rights advocates arrive in Chicago for ‘Black August Freedom Rides’

Activists from Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi traveled to Chicago to strengthen ties with local organizations as abortion bans go into effect in the South.

Chicago Sun-Times

Louisiana’s three abortion clinics will close and relocate out of state as anti-abortion law goes into effect

Clinic closures in Louisiana and Mississippi will leave the states without any abortion clinic for the first time in nearly 50 years

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Lawsuit: Mississippi police 'terrorized' small town

Civil rights advocates say in a federal lawsuit that police have “terrorized” residents in a small Mississippi town by subjecting them to false arrests, excessive force and intimidation

Asharq Al-Awsat

Elvis Death Anniversary Increases Tourism at His Birthplace

The Elvis Presley Birthplace and Museum in Tupelo, Mississippi, has welcomed an increasing number of visitors as fans commemorate the 45th anniversary of Presley's death and a new movie reawakens international interest in the singer. Roy Turner was named executive director of the Birthplace last fall after longtime leader Dick…

The Independent UK

Elvis death anniversary increases tourism at his birthplace

The Elvis Presley Birthplace and Museum in Mississippi is welcoming an increasing number of visitors as fans commemorate the 45th anniversary of Presley’s death

Salon

Are we the last civilization to fall?

The Cahokia Mounds stand by the Mississippi as a warning from a fallen culture. Do we still have time to heed it?

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American Queen Voyages unveils its longest sailing ever

American Queen Voyages unveiled the longest itinerary in the company’s history – a 23-day “Grand Ohio & Upper Mississippi Rivers” cruise, which will depart from Minneapolis and sail to Pittsburgh aboard American Countess on July 24, 2023.

Tribune News Service

How Austin Riley’s small-town roots in northern Mississippi shaped him

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — DeSoto Central High School’s past and present poetically intersected May 15, 2019.

The Independent UK

Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case

The white woman whose accusations prompted the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 talks in a memoir about getting preferential treatment from Mississippi authorities soon after the killing

The Independent UK

Mississippi trooper cleared in probe of chokehold video

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety says its internal investigation has found no criminal conduct by a white Highway Patrol trooper who used physical force against a handcuffed Black man during an arrest

The Independent UK

In Mississippi, a trespasser, a killing and DEA meddling

A veteran U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has quietly returned to work in Mississippi more than a year after he was charged with murder in the shooting death of his mentally ill neighbor

Daily Mirror

White woman who triggered lynching of black child won't be charged 77 years on

Jurors heard more than seven hours of testimony after an unserved arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham was found last month - 77 years after Emmett Till's killing in the Mississippi Delta in the US

Tribune News Service

Escaping the ordinary: A Q&A with author and adventurer Rinker Buck

In his new book, Buck sails a flatboat down the Mississippi River and has all kinds of adventures.

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